Atari to have new flashback arcade system..

[spara]

Check out this news story:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040907/ap_on_hi_te/games_atari_reissues_1

Kinda late dontcha' think?  

[javeryh]

I just saw this... 85 games is pretty good if you ask me.  Hopefully the kids will appreciate it but somehow I think the the lack of blood and boobs will slow sales a bit...  

[paigeoliver]

You're right to say that a lot of them are bootlegged, and the code is not the right code, and the color is not the right color.

She lies. The code is the exact code, dumped from the cartridges themselves. The colors are also exact. 2600 emulation has been perfect for years.

I'd be willing to bet the PC emulated versions of those games are far more correct than the Playstation version will be.

Note, NO pc version, just another release of digital games on a console with analog gamepads!

Anyway, this is semi dumb, don't they own the rights to the atari arcade library too? That stuff is far better and much easier to market.

Also, the new 7800 doesn't have a cartridge slot, they crippled the thing to save $3 or $4 a unit. Bleah.

[mp2526]

Anyway, this is semi dumb, don't they own the rights to the atari arcade library too? That stuff is far better and much easier to market.

If I remember my arcade history, didn't the console and the arcade divisions of Atari split ways awhile back, so I would assume that which ever company bought one division doesn't nesessarily have rights to the other.  I most certainly could be wrong, as I can't even remember who recently bought Atari.

[BLACK KNIGHT]

If you could plug carts into I'd probably buy one!  I have a bunch of 2600 carts but no console.  

[Gunstar Hero]

Bingo. When Warner bought Atari, and then sold it to the Commodore guys, they didn't want the arcade division, so Warner kept it and it became Atari Games.

Atari Games was owned by Warner for awhile and had a couple name changes, then Midway bought them, changed their name AGAIN a couple few  times then finally closed them down.

Atari Corp. chugged on through the computers, 7800, Lynx and Jag before they finally were absorbed by JTS. Their intellectual properties were bought by Hasbro, and then sold to the French publisher Infogrames, who decided that they liked the Atari name so much they changed their name to Atari!

That's why you get Atari games on the "Midway Treasures" discs and only home games on anything that actually carries the Atari logo.